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“Daniel Bell, Jr. does a great service for the church, the academy, and civic discourse about war in this book. Dissatisfied with the way in which the Just War criteria have devolved into merely a public policy checklist for politicians in the modern nation-state, he invites Christians to look deeper.

“The church cannot abdicate responsibility for moral judgments about the justice of initiating or prosecuting war to the secular authorities. These decisions are far too important and central to Christian faithfulness to be left to the state. Therefore, he holds out the promise and possibility of Just War as a form of Christian discipleship.”